Senior Cloud & AI Platform Architect - Healthcare

CVS Health; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Architect to lead the Clinical Insights Engine platform. You will define long‑term software and systems architecture, drive cross‑functional engineering strategy, and steer the design of mission‑critical systems powering clinical AI models and large‑scale analytics.

You will mentor engineers and set enterprise standards across multiple squads. You will champion best practices, guide architecture decisions for LLM pipelines, and ensure HIPAA compliance and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software or data architecture, platform engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years designing enterprise‑scale cloud systems in GCP or Azure in healthcare or regulated contexts.
• Deep expertise in cloud‑native services relevant to CIE stack (BigQuery, Dataflow, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub).
• Experience architecting clinical AI/ML platforms (feature stores, model serving, MLOps).
• Strong distributed systems design (event streaming, API gateways, fault-tolerance).
• Experience aligning roadmaps across large programs without direct authority.
• Familiarity with clinical/healthcare data (EHR, claims, PHI).
• Knowledge of HIPAA and enterprise security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Drive end‑to‑end software architecture vision and roadmap for Clinical Insights Engine.
• Provide technical authority across multiple squads and product teams.
• Lead scalable, cost‑effective platforms for clinical AI/ML workloads, including LLM pipelines.
• Define ML architecture patterns and MLOps pipelines for production reliability.
• Shape RAG pipelines, embeddings, and clinical NLP processing.
• Define enterprise standards and reference architectures for CVS Health engineering.
• Collaborate with product managers and clinicians to align architecture with outcomes.
• Represent CIE in enterprise architecture forums and governance councils.
• Champion best practices like event‑driven design, API‑first development, and data quality.

Skills

Software architecture

Enterprise cloud design

AI/ML platform design

Distributed systems

Stakeholder influence

Healthcare data domain

SAFe Agile

Cloud strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Vertex AI

Kubeflow

MLflow

BigQuery

Dataflow

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Architect to lead the Clinical Insights Engine platform. You will define long‑term software and systems architecture, drive cross‑functional engineering strategy, and steer the design of mission‑critical systems powering clinical AI models and large‑scale analytics.

You will mentor engineers and set enterprise standards across multiple squads. You will champion best practices, guide architecture decisions for LLM pipelines, and ensure HIPAA compliance and